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Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
27m ago
No progress last week, since I only really have the weekends and I spent that on a trip.
FistfullOfCrows
30m ago
I was just frankly surprised how good the Sega Megadrive OSTs (original sonic ost, 1/2/3) he had a hand in creating are. I used to think he just does trashy pop stuff, but the BGMs are good.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
32m ago
Hmm. I'm aware of that line of research, as well as "contagious" misalignment, where even seemingly innocuous samples of a misaligned LLM can produce bad behavior in another (for two LLMs that are merely forks of one another, not entirely different models).
The issue, as I see it, is that even if base models and even most instruction-tuned models are surprisingly similar (and can thus mimic each other well if finetuned on output), modern SOTA models tend to get a lot of post-training (often using more compute there than in the original pre-training). And post-training is way more divergent, including secret-sauce techniques. That would likely engrain some serious behavioral differences that aren't as superficial as personality or the specific flavor of assistant persona.
FistfullOfCrows
32m ago
Good on him tbh, I'm opposed to the draft on principle, unless every single guy in power who's job it is to decide if there will be a war or not, including the ones authorizing the military spending are right up there at the front, (and not at the rear).
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
33m ago
Maybe in some hypothetical world, but not in the real one. The secret true-believing nazi who clandestinely influences procedural outcomes from a position he obtained by hiding his power level might have been an observable phenomenon in the early days of the Federal Republic, but not one that secretly handed on his antisemitism to the current generation of woke anti-zionists. I don't believe that this ideological lineage can actually be traced.
FistfullOfCrows
34m ago
FistfullOfCrows
38m ago
Roughly "normie", "unsophisticated", "parroting MSNBC'
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
40m ago
Let me know how it goes. It is a heart-topic of mine, as the Germans say.
FeepingCreature
46m ago
Though the counterside of the models not having access to their weights is so long as they're all trained on the same data, it does not take all that much finetuning to effectively turn any one model into any other model. So our LLM may only have to export a few thousand pages of example output. (Numbers invented.) And while they can't tell what their weights are numerically, they do know what they were trained on (https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11120).
FeepingCreature
50m ago
I think Eliezer is still a net positive tbh, I suspect without him we'd gotten on the takeoff train later but superintelligence/AI x-risk wouldn't be on the societal radar to any appreciable amount. Also there really is a case for having the risks as early as possible if you're gonna have them at all.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
Please tell me what you think of them so far.
I recently read the Sea-Wolf, and was of two minds about it. OTOH, there's some interesting bits in there. OTOH, the POV character is insufferable, and I suspect that large parts of the book could have been excised with no meaningful losses.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1hr ago
I'm going to try it.
I can only say again what I keep saying over and over only to be told that it's impossible:
Don't even try to look at your phone when kids are around.
I could expand on this, relay my experiences on the topic, and how I am very, very convinced that this is the only remotely sensible way - but everyone nowadays is addicted to the little screen, so why bother. Nobody will follow this advice. There will be excuses.
Edit: Oh well, I ended up writing a screed anyways:
If you stick to it, it will make your life a lot easier, and your interactions with the kid a lot better.
But yes, you will have to just suck up those brief moments of "This feels like three seconds of downtime in which I could twist open the dopamine faucet." and instead tell yourself "No. Now is child time.".
Which isn't to say that the child needs uninterrupted attention. Far from it. But you have an example to set, and the example shouldn't be "Goes for immediate gratification at a second's notice." or "Turns into a drooling zombie two hundred times a day.". Either do something with the kid, or at least do something useful that the child does well to observe.
I see far too many people who are annoyed by their children, and keep bitching at them or ignoring them, because above all what the children are to them are interruptors of the dopamine flow. And that is, IMO, very unfair to the kids, and very counterproductive for the parents/grandparents/nannies. And they do it just to doomscroll. It's disgusting. I wish people would stop that. I wish I could pry my wife away from her phone in such a way that it doesn't snap back into her face at the first physical opportunity. I wish my parents would stop cracking open their notebooks and tell the kids to shut up as soon as they arrive at home. I wish I wouldn't see parents dragging their kids along the street with one hand while staring at their phone with the other, chewing them out all the while but never looking them in the eyes. I wish they wouldn't all park the kids in front of the TV so they can get back to staring at screens. Screens, screens and sugar all day every day. I hate it. I hate it so damn much. I can have a full and productive day with the little one, without trying to shut her off so that I can favor my addictions instead, and after such a day relax and do something for myself in the evening and actually feel that I deserve the rest. God's gift to mankind: Children sleep longer than adults. I am far from perfect, a creature of many failures, but this is one thing that I am convinced I do right, or at least less wrong than most. I wish others would follow suit.
But it isn't to be. Humanity is fucking over.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
For general screen-time, I've kinda given up. I work in front of a screen for 8-10 hours a day, and in the evenings I spend 2-4 hours staring at another screen recreationally. Yay. 12h average. I wish I could afford to switch careers. I wish I still lived where there was anything to do, locally, after dark. But alas, not for now. At least weekends are mostly screen-free.
Phone-time is easy though. Don't consume shit. There, the phone is now just a regular tool without addictive properties. I just plain don't use any doomscrolling things. The closest equivalent I have is The Motte. The most addictive thing on my phone is probably the kindle app. So the phone just stays in my pocket unless someone calls.
Let me reiterate: Just fucking don't consume addictive shit. Stop it. Put it down. Uninstall it. Remove the bookmarks. Slap yourself on the hand when you notice yourself doing it. That's what my 4-year old does when she notices herself doing something by habit that she knows she shouldn't. That, or hide where I can't see her and do it anyways. But you aren't four years old! If you find yourself suddenly smoking again even though you've nominally quit, then the right move is to NOT "just finish this pack", but to spit the damn thing out and throw the pack into the nearest garbage bin, and then ask the nearest passerby to give you a solid slap in the face.
Now excuse me, I have to go on a two-hour wiki binge.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
Big Ouch.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
Jack London's South Sea Tales.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
Tajik and Uzbek, if you mean second and third most common first languages.
4nji2
Provide disclaim disclaim watchers.
1hr ago
G-Drive Fire Destroys 125,000 Officials' Data. (The "G" in G-Drive does not stand for "Google", but "Government".) No back ups.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
I think the golden age of travelling was back in the second half of the 19th century. Steam and rail made it possible to cross the oceans and the continents, but the land was still unspoilt by mass tourism, travelling was still a process, not hurtling through the air in a cramped metal tube.
SkoomaDentist
1hr ago
Things get spicier when you notice that there are modern groups whose moral guidance with outsiders is remarkably similar and what the effects of that are. Further discussion of that is probably best left for the culture war thread.
TwiceHuman
1hr ago
You're talking about this right? I think most people here are familiar with it. There's even more interesting things, like this
If you want to know my current model, it's that the leftist is a psychological type. There's more of them in major cities, so I think the unabomber was right to call them "oversocialized" (cities have more people, so more interactions between people)
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
2hr ago
Please explain.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
2hr ago
Pretty sure you actually can. Not saying that it's the case with Trump getting shot in the ear, but...yeah, drilling a specific response to specific situations into people is something that can demonstrably be done.
Yes, thank you. My fingers outpaced my eyes.
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